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Item Restricted Some aspects of US direct ivestments in the Philippines(1969-01) Corpuz, Alex R.; Sicat, Gerardo P.Item Restricted Japanese direct foreign investment(1987-03) Facunla, Agnes G.; Castro, Amado A.Item Restricted Determinants of foreign direct investment inflows in the Philippines(2001-03) Canlapan, Christina E.; Gomez, Diana B.; Miranda, Casimiro V.Item Restricted Foreign direct investment and export in the Philippines(2003-04) Go, Diana Tan; Ladan, Laarni Gaddi; Alburo, FlorianThis paper investigates on the crucial factors that influence export performance in the Philippines. Related studies and trends were presented to highlight the role that FDI plays in the expansion of exports. Other variables such as trade policies, REER, labor productivity, and the interaction variable involving foreign investments and productivity were also examined in the study. Empirical evidence showed a positive but minimal impact of FDI on the growth of Philippine exports.Item Restricted China's 'crowding out' effect: the case of Philippine FDI flows(2006-10) Diezmo, Katrina Cecilia T.; Galang, Melanie G.; Bautista, Ma. Socorro GochocoAmong Asian countries, the Republic of China has been the major destination of FDI flows from the rest of the world. This phenomenon raised concerns among other developing countries that China is growing at their expense. Given the impact of geography on investment, such concerns are greatest among China's most immediate neighbors. Consequently, allegations have been posed by these countries regarding the so called 'crowding-out effect' of China's FDI flows, which claims that the increasing levels of FDI flows to China are accompanied by decreasing levels of FDI flows to other developing countries. While most of the studies in the literature estimate crowding out by , China's FDI flows in many countries, this paper focuses on just one, the Republic of the Philippines. Furthermore, we split the FDI flows to the Philippines into the most important sectors to see which sectors are positively or negatively affected, and see whether sectoral analysis of 'crowding out' is consistent with the aggregate results reflected on the literature.Item Restricted The varying impacts of sectoral foreign direct investments on Philippine economic growth(2006-10-24) Dela Cruz, Jasmin R.; Ongcay, Maria Cecilia Ayessa S.; Quimbo, StellaTo determine whether FDI allocated among primary, industrial, and services sectors have distinct features in spurring economic growth, this study utilized Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method using Philippine time-series data for the period 1974 to 2003. The empirical analyses showed that the expected positive impact on economic growth of FDI in the industrial sector is realized in the export sector while FDI in the primary reveals a negative impact as caused by privately financed rural infrastructure, modernized technology, new techniques, and employment generation. Finally, FDI channeled in the services sector contribute to growth through the provision of infrastructure services and employment creation.Item Restricted Inward foreign direct investment in selected asian countries(2008-03) Almojuela, Annie R.; Cuevas, Carmela Paz P.; Reside, Renato E. Jr.This paper studies some of the major determinants of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) using data from thirty two Asian economies (Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, South Korea, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam) during the period 1981-2004. Using fixed effects panel data estimation, this paper examines how and to what extent the following factors: previous year's FDI, real GDP, inflation, nominal exchange rate, openness, political stability, illiteracy rate, and infrastructure affect FDI inflows.Item Restricted Effects of foreign direct investment in Mindanao(2008-03) Hernandez, Isabelle J.; Suaybaguio, Pauline B.; Alburo, FlorianThis paper analyses the impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mindanao, Philippines, establishing the fundamentals to economic growth thereby justifying the proposition that it is important to invest in this major island of the country. To formalise the argument of the potential growth enhancing effect of FDI, it presents a cross regional empirical analysis of the effects of FDI on regional economic growth through regression analysis on production and non-agricultural wages of Mindanao-regions IX, X, XI, XII, and Caraga-using pooled cross-section and time-series data set. The paper discusses how new and expanded foreign direct investments (HOI-registered) affect regional economic growth from 1994-2003 based on the hypothesis that FDI has significant positive effects on production capability and wages. The results indicate that indeed foreign direct investments have a positive impact on non- agricultural wages and that the significance of FDI and labor on GDP varies across the regions. It becomes apparent that the impacts of these FDIs are a function of their intensity - the higher the share of FDI relative to the region's total investments, the higher is the coefficient of the total factor productivity that is its potential contribution to economic growth.Item Restricted Determinants of capital inflows to the Philippines: an empirical investigation(2009-04-03) Cañada, Pamela S.; Lu, Jerome Bryan C.; Reside, RenatoItem Restricted The determinants of foreign direct investment in Asia(2009-04-03) King, Karl Edward Capuchino; Reyes, Noel Ricardo Ocampo; Reside, RenatoThis study attempts to quantify the determinants of FDI in selected Asian countries from the different Asian Regions. The model uses Ordinary Least Squares regression and puts the claim forward that Foreign Direct Investment in a country is determined by its market size both actual and potential, its openness or outward orientation, its infrastructure, its state of political risk, and its exchange rate volatility. Real GDP and its growth rate are taken as proxies for actual market size and potential market size. On the other hand, roads are used as a proxy for infrastructure. Lastly, openness is measured by the sum of a country’s exports and imports as a percentage of its GDP. The OLS estimation results show that indeed, actual market size and openness are significant determinants of FDI. However, the results also show that potential market size and exchange rate volatility are not significant, although both possess the incorrect sign. Also, it is found that infrastructure and political risk are significant determinants, although with effects contrary to what is expected.